Shares in Carnival plc, the UK constituent of Carnival Corp & plc group, fell heavily in London on Thursday, their second day of deep losses.
In the past few days, a host of media reports have emerged about the plight of passengers of Carnival CruiseLines’ Carnival Triumph that lost power after an engine room fire off the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico in the Caribbean on Sunday.
At midday local time, shares in Carnival plc had fallen 2.9% to £25.00 since the opening of the market. The FTSE100 index of leading shares traded 0.8% down today midday on the back of a streak of bad figures from the euro zone.
The Carnival shares had closed at £25.90 on Friday and only fell 5p on Monday and rose to close at £26.28 on Tuesday. However , they fell sharply already on Wednesday to finish at £25.75.